Tuesday, September 20, 2022

If You Don't Like A Baby Name, Just Keep Your Mouth Shut

 
Scary Mommy
Sep 20, 2022
 
 
NO OPINIONS PLEASE
If You Don't Like A Baby Name, Just Keep Your Mouth Shut
 
Today, we've got a piece by an anonymous writer who has a piece of advice: Don't like a baby name? Don't say anything. In this case, it's inspired by her own knee-jerk reaction to a name her daughter was considering — as well as her own history as a mom. "New things often seem strange until we get used to them. Not that it matters, because my feelings for my grandchild-to-be aren't contingent on her name," she writes. 

Let this serve as a nice little reminder that keeping your mouth shut is an option that is always freely available to all of us!

Kelly Faircloth, Executive Editor
 
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